The Magic Mountain Hotel

The Magic Mountain is a novel published in 1924 by Thomas Mann and is considered one of the most influential works of German literature of the twentieth century.

The book, whose plot takes place in the early twentieth century, tells the unique experience of Hans Castorp, a young engineer from Hamburg came to visit his cousin Joachim Ziemssen in curing the Alpine resort of Davos Sanatorium Berghof . The hero, fascinated by the microcosm of “people upstairs” and cradled by their pace of life, it ends by also getting a very strange disease.